“Playful, bizarre, eviscerating, and deeply empathetic, these are poems precisely attuned
to what we stand to lose when we can no longer, in our advertisements, actually perceive
ourselves.
-Jenna Butler
Winner of the 2024 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
Winner of the 2024 Writers Guild of Alberta Memoir Award
“…an extraordinary collection of sharply-crafted lyric essays. Delisle exhibits a poet’s ear for resonance while skillfully weaving a structure that allows the cumulative power of small, carefully witnessed moments to billow into a powerful and moving story.”
-Lisa Martin
“…a magical exploration of language’s perfection and elusiveness. Here is a voice that enlightens, surprises, and stirs. Deriving is rich—its breadth and depth compel the reader to experience poetry that, at its core, is about ‘finding words/for everything I’ll never understand.’ ”
-Wendy McGrath
“…a lyrical inquiry into the pull of an ancestral home and a compassionate study of intergenerational resilience in the face of loss.”
-Susan Olding